74 CATOCALA ULTRONIA. 



Secondaries red, greyish near the costa ; mesial band irregular iu width and extends to inner margin; a 

 black discal lune joins the mesial; fringes white and black. 



Habitat. Canada, and the United States generally east of the Mississippi. 



A common and very pretty species which, by the peculiar appearance of the primaries, can be easily 

 known from all others. 



CATOCALA I'lATRIX. Grot.. 



Proc. Ent. Soc, I'hila., Vol. II J, ]>. 88, t. Ill, (1804). 

 Proc. Ent. Soc, Pliila., Vol. Ill, p. 532, (1864j. 

 Trane. Am. Kiit. Soc, Vol. IV, p. 10, (1872). 



(PLATE IX, EIG. 8, c?.) 



Expnnds 2| to 3 inches. 



Head and thorax brown, with darker lines; abdomen yellowish brown. Beneath pale ochraoeous. 



Upper surface ; primarcs brown, varied with darker ba.sal, median and sub-apical shades ; transverse linos 

 black; reniform large and enclosed in a dark shade; sub-reniform open and pale, from this to the costa, in- 

 terior to the ri'niform, is a i>aler space. 



Secondaries yellow, ba.se clothed with brownish hair; bands rather broad, but narrowing towards their 

 termination at the abdominal margin. 



Under surface* of all wings pale ochraceous, darker at interior margins; primaries have three transverse 

 bands, the sub-basal and mesial black and distinct, the marginal pale, much suffused with yellow, especially 

 towards the exterior margin ; on .secondaries the mesial band is irregular in width, narrow towards the costa, 

 broader on disc, and is terminated some distance from inner margin ; marginal band darkest near the anal 

 angle and becomes almost obsolete as it nears the apex and costa. 



Habitat. New England, Middle and Southern States. 



A rather common species, belonging to the same group as Subnata and Neogama, in company with which 

 it occurs in many localities. 



CATOHALA MULIERCULA. Guenpf. 



Noct., Vol. Ill, 97, (1852). 



(PLATE IX, FIG. 9, <^.) 



Expands 2| to 2J inches. 



Head and body dark brown above; beneath yellowish grey. 



Upper surface; primaries dark, rich reddish brown, with none of the markings very distinct; reniform 

 sm.all ; sub-reniform pale, space immediately interior to the reniform also a little paler; transverse lines black. 



Secondaries deep yellow clothed with brown hair at base and abdominal margin; marginal and mesial 

 bands extend to interior margin ; fringe blackish, except near apex, where it is white. 



* The original description of the under fiiirface, and .still more, tlie second one hy the same author, which followed it a few months 

 later, would lead_ one to exiiect, instead of a very ordinary looking Catocala, some gorgeous insect rivaling the richne.ss of Erasmia or 

 Eterusia. The first description .says : " Under surface pale luteous, pale ochraceous brownish along external margins, orange coloured at 

 ba.s_e of posterior wing.s, median bands black, slightly iridescent." Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., Ill, 89. The second description, in regard to 

 which the author says, " I allow the present description to supersede the one given by me on page 88 of the present volume," is as follows ; 

 "Under surface of both pair pale grayish ochraceous, iridescent, irrorate basally and subdiscally tinged with an orange shade; anterior 

 wings cros.sed by three, posterior pair by two black transverse bands." Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., Ill, 533. In the third de.scription of this 

 species, in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, IV, 10, all the splendour of description is transferred to the upper surface, the author doubtless con- 

 Bidering that he had conscientiously performed his duty towards the under side in the preceding two descriptions, allows it "presently" 

 to rest in peace. 



